Copy to OP:
First, Version 2 has progressed well beyond where it was only a few
months ago. You should give it another go. But that doesn't solve your
immediate problem.
It appears you are not using Master Documents which is the simplest way
to manage a document/book of several chapters, especially if you want
all the pages to be numbered sequentially. You can also break the
numbering sequence using section breaks, but that's for another exchange.
There are a few tutorials @ http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/ which
can help you quickly get a leg up on using this method.
hth,
Doug
Heather J Gladney wrote:
I'm using Open Office 1.1.4.
How do I get it to do a decent offset pagination without brain surgery
involved?
I was using 1.1.9, but it went unstable on me a year ago, kept crashing,
and I had to go back to reinstall 1.1.4.
I don't know if this has been fixed in 1.19 or not; I was never able to
find how to create a page number offset in that one.
Now in 1.1.4, I find that, in writing a book with multiple chapters as
separate files, I'm having a lot of trouble adding an offset to pagination.
I suspect it's that known problem where it won't add a larger offset
numeral to the page number than it has pages in the document. Some
pages into the second chapter, it gives me a blank spot for the inserted
offset page number--and with various things I've tried, how many pages
in it is where this happens, will vary between 11 to 15 pages. That's
very odd, given that neither the offset nor the numbe rof pages in
either chapter has changed.
With a second chapter shorter than the first, it's a huge issue for me.
(It took me a good four hours just to figure out how to offset at all.)
I'm ending up buried deep in the website developer sections trying to
sort out how to fix this.
I've tried the suggestion to add a manual break, select page break,
chose page style, change page number, choose a number. That only works
for that next page, and again it goes blank on the very next page; and
trying to add another break there, means that the first fix comes
undone, which--with two manual breaks--I believe it should not be doing.
I have not set up STyles or done anything beyond default with any of this.
I'm out of time, and either I gotta have help to sort it out, or I have
to export it back to Word.
I hate the whole idea of doing that.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Heather
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